This Week In React 154
Server Components, Remix, Next.js, Redwood, Million, Lucia, ElementRef, Partially Controlled, SVG Sprites, NextUI, Storybook, Hermes, require.context...
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Once again this week, we've got some great React articles, especially on Server Components!
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Understanding React Server Components
New Vercel article that gives a good overview of React Server Components, their implementation in Next.js, why they exist, when to use them and their limitations. Also covers various related topics: Server Actions, code-splitting, caching, suspense, selective hydration...
Everything I wish I knew before moving 50,000 lines of code to React Server Components
Awesome article on RSCs! Feedback that details the 3 main challenges encountered during the adoption at Mux: no CSS-in-JS, no React Context, and additional complexity. Also provides answers to many questions and a strategy for adopting RSCs incrementally.
👀 React Working Group - List of libraries that support React Server Components
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Array.prototype.with()📜 Speeding up the dbt™ docs by 20x with React Server Components: feedback on a POC migration of an Angular 1 app to Next.js App Router and React Server Components. Very significant gains reported in terms of loading time, memory consumption, CPU blocking.
📜 Shopify’s platform is the Web platform: Shopify now recommends Remix for creating "Admin Apps", which run in an iframe and communicate with the parent app via an "App Bridge" based on
postMessage(). An interesting frontend/React architecture for those building a platform that need decoupling.📜 Partially Controlled Components: A Declarative Design Pattern in React: introduces a new term/concept to describe components capable of offering both controlled/uncontrolled state on demand, with granularity applicable to the whole state, or a slice of it.
📜 Use svg sprite icons in React: explains how to use SVG sprites (more optimised than React SVG components) in a Remix context with a codegen step.
📜 Strongly Type useRef with ElementRef: TIL about the
ElementRefTypeScript type, which is used to obtain the type of a React ref from any component, quite similarly to howComponentPropsworks.📜 10 Essential React Performance Optimization Techniques for Faster Web Applications
📦 Lucia v2.0: Lucia is a TypeScript authentication library gaining momentum recently. Including Next.js and Remix integrations.
📦 Million.js Automatic Mode beta: now analyses your React code and automatically optimises it with Million.js!
📦 Redwood v6: new stable release with Vite, Prisma 5, Storybook 7, Suspense Router... Prepares the ground for the introduction of streaming support and React Server components.
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Measure Hermes engine performance in React Native with Flashlight
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🐦 React-Native now has end-2-end tests: great news for React-Native release process and QA, the official RNTester app is now tested with Appium and WebDriver.
📜 Dynamic imports supported in react native: the Webpack feature
require.context(used to import a folder of modules dynamically) has been ported to Metro for the needs of Expo Router. This allows Storybook React-Native 6.5.5 to create an index of stories without a codegen step (in preview), and opens up other interesting possibilities.📜 Apple - List of APIs that require declared reasons now available: React-Native iOS developers need to prepare for new constraints.
📦 VisionCamera 3.0.0-rc.4: a number of significant changes in this RC, in preparation for the expected arrival of v3.
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